Deck 10: Career and Vocational Assessment

Question 1

Which of the following best describes prevocational and employability skills?

A)general skills necessary for success in all jobs
B)specific skills necessary for success in particular jobs
C)two completely different sets of skills
D)usually taught on-the-job rather than in the classroom

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which stage of the career education and assessment process usually begins in elementary school?

A)awareness
B)exploration
C)placement
D)preparation

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Which career and vocational assessment procedure involves describing student progress by reporting either (1)the number of steps a student has mastered out of the total number of steps or (2)plotting data on a graph?

A)on-the-job assessment
B)situational assessment
C)task analysis assessment
D)work sample evaluation

Answer 3

C

Question 4

IDEA requires the inclusion of a statement describing needed transition services in the IEPs of all students,beginning at which age?

A)14
B)15
C)16
D)17

Question 5

What is a comprehensive definition of transition planning? What are three of the most important reasons for including transition planning in the education of teenagers with special needs? What is the role of assessment in transition planning?

Question 6

Which term encompasses the broadest range of skills?

A)Career assessment
B)On-the-job assessment
C)Vocational assessment

Question 7

Career placement is the _____stage in the process of career education.

A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth

Question 8

IDEA requires that transition services be provided _______________.

A)by adult service agencies
B)through interagency cooperation
C)by postsecondary education institutions
D)by the school

Question 9

What is the first stage in the process of career education?

A)Awareness
B)Exploration
C)Placement
D)Preparation

Question 10

Career preparation is the ____stage in the process of career education.

A)first
B)second
C)third
D)fourth

Question 11

IDEA requires that beginning at age 16 all students with disabilities have a

A)comprehensive career assessment.
B)comprehensive vocational assessment.
C)a series of planned work experiences.
D)a statement describing needed transition services.

Question 12

Which term is the most specific?

A)Career assessment
B)Assessing employability skills
C)Assessing prevocational skills
D)Vocational assessment

Question 13

Which of the following assessments would most teachers use to assess the vocational interests of their students?

A)on-the-job observation
B)task analysis
C)written tests and inventories

Question 14

Which appraisal procedure usually occurs in work evaluation centers because it requires expensive assessment equipment and a large evaluation area?

A)assessing prevocational and employability skills
B)assessing vocational interests
C)situational assessment
D)work sample assessment

Question 15

Which of the following best describes vocational assessment?

A)assessing entry level skills
B)assessing skills for specific jobs
C)direct assessment of on-the-job performance
D)evaluating the skills necessary for success on-the-job and in the community

Question 16

Which of the following statements best describes career education assessment?

A)assessing entry level skills
B)assessing skills for specific jobs
C)direct assessment of on-the-job performance
D)evaluating the skills necessary for success on-the-job and in the community

Question 17

The career preparation stage of career education emphasizes assessment and training in ________skills.

A)career
B)employability
C)prevocational
D)vocational

Question 18

If a teacher wanted to conduct career assessment with elementary students she would probably wish to evaluate at which of the following stages?

A)Awareness
B)Exploration
C)Placement
D)Preparation

Question 19

The skills necessary to qualify for entry-level jobs in the workplace are referred to as _____skills.

A)employability
B)career
C)prevocational
D)vocational

Question 20

Which stage of the career education and assessment process usually begins in high school?

A)awareness
B)exploration
C)placement
D)preparation

Question 21

Have students developing an idea for a work sample useful in assessing the career and vocational interests and aptitudes of their students.

Question 22

Have students identify a difficult vocational skill and develop a task analysis assessment to measure student progress in learning the skill.

Question 23

Invite an employment specialist or job coach from local school to class and conduct an interview with the specialist about assessment procedures used in the job experience and placement program.

Question 24

Which test or evaluation procedure would you use to assess the vocational interests of a group of students with special needs in your class? What are the purposes and uses of this test or evaluation procedure? Provide three reasons you selected this particular test or evaluation procedure?

Question 25

What are teacher-made work samples,and what are three ways they may be useful in classroom instruction with teenagers who have special needs? Describe five of the steps you would follow in developing work samples.

Question 26

What is task analysis and what are three ways task analysis can be useful in teaching career and vocational skills? Describe three similarities and three differences between task analysis and vocational interest inventories.